Summary Of Shantata ! Court Chalu Ahe

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Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (Silence! The Court is in Session, 1967) was his first play in which he marked out as a rebel against the established values of the society. This play combines social criticism with the tragedy of an individual victimized by society. The play represents the mental conflict of the protagonist, Miss Leela Benare who appears during the mock-trial as an accused. The plot of the play revolves round the trial of Miss Benare. Her role eclipses the roles of her male-counterparts. In love, she is cheated twice; first by her maternal uncle and later by Prof. Damle, her loving–companion. However, in the first event, the guilt passes unnoticed and hence, unpunished. But, in the other one, she is caught in a trap, through the cruel game cunningly arranged by her companions, as her love affair has …show more content…

The action of the play revolves round the bringing of the sick fifth woman by Sakharam and his friend Dawood to the hospital; her consequent demise and her last Hindu rites by Sakharam at the persistent cajoling of Dawood. In the course of this description, the dramatist has unraveled the actual position of women in the mind of men–folk, who go on changing female company like their clothes. Sakharam treats the fifth woman as a source of his physical gratification without any emotional attachment. At her death, he only thinks of the sixth woman who has to come to take her place. The reality is also ironically highlighted in the words of the crow which is supposed to belong to the next world. Here the man is found bemoaning at the loss of his source of virility which differentiates him from the female. Tendulkar’s art of handling of a serious subject with an uncompromising comical strain enables him to enjoy respect with

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